I love a good sunset. DD and I watched a glorious one yesterday as we ate fish and chips at Watson's Bay ferry wharf. Then we popped our Gelato Messina cherry in Darlinghurst. It’s been widely hailed as Sydney’s best ice cream. DD stayed in the car and sent me inside to choose something yummy.... Continue Reading →

The celebrity highlight of the week for me was watching Fleetwood Mac perform with Neil Finn in the lineup on the Ellen show. I was just as startled as the rest of the world when the announcement was made that the lead singer of one of my favourite bands - Crowded House - object of... Continue Reading →

I ate hot chips in an igloo last night ... as you do. Actually, you usually don’t, but my life tends to have a slightly surreal quality to it. So I did. I can sense you thinking please explain ... so I will. DD took me to a function that his corporate travel agency -... Continue Reading →

OK, that's a pretty big call - and slightly obnoxious - but I'm fairly confident I've taken the prize. At midday yesterday, I sat in the Drinks Trade boardroom with winemaker Ed Carr, from House of Arras, to try five of his sparkling wines. Not just any sparkling wines. One bottle we sipped was priced... Continue Reading →

The youngest finds it more entertaining to watch me than the movie at the cinema because I invariably cry. I even sobbed in the Mamamia sequel ..: and not because Pierce’s singing was so bad. She insisted we see Crazy Rich Asians over the weekend - in between shuttling her to various school band performances... Continue Reading →

How was your Father's Day? I know it's a tough one for a lot of people. I hope you made it through OK. My family met in the middle-ish at Mooney Mooney Club for the Father's Day set lunch. It was lovely to be together, even though we were down two grandchildren. My youngest was... Continue Reading →

OK, I might only last a week, but I've decided to dip my toe into the gossip world and see what I've been missing out on. Erm ... It doesn't seem like I've missed much ... US Weekly and People are a bit of a wasteland of whatever-ness. But there have been a few things... Continue Reading →

I've been trying ... but usually failing ... to get to the gym more often to shake off the spare tyre and back injury. So I bolted out of the office at noon yesterday for a quickie 30-minute pump class at my local gym. Except I got the time wrong. The class is at 12.15pm... Continue Reading →

The "Top up oil levels" message started flashing on my Renault Captur AGAIN this week. That's four months after the last time the service centre poured a vat of oil into it and assured me they'd fixed the problem. We're talking about a car that's less than three years old and first started bleating about... Continue Reading →